Description: A detailed discussion on Private Letter Ruling 20123009 which states that owners of life insurance contracts in some circumstances want to decrease their death benefits and that the decreases contemplated are not ones resulting from application of a formula or other provision set forth in the contracts.

Description: A discussion on how, as some have worried, we are entering uncharted territory for countries such as the United States and the Eurozone, as large amounts of money are being expended to stave off major global financial crises.

Description: The article deals with the critique of a technical advice memorandum issued by the IRS. It basically states the author's opinion that, although the conclusion was correct, the reasoning given was inappropriate.

Description: The article provides a summary of the 2017 Tax CUts and Jobs Act provisions that are most important to life insurance companies.

Description: Beneficiaries who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid often have complex health needs. The two programs have not typically been well integrated and care can become uncoordinated, fragmented and incomplete. The ACA includes provisions to address the shortcomings.

Description: The author offers suggestions for selecting the subject of an article to write for publication. His advice is to include information about issues you have solved for your clients, but avoid writing about broad expertise that you know a lot about. Rather he suggests that “by focusing on specific, truly relevant problems, your readers will gain the wisdom of your consulting expertise.”

Description: A description of the sessions the AOF Section is sponsoring at the Spring Meetings.

Description: A roundtable discussion of changes in the nature of actuarial work and the skills actuaries will need to be successful in the future.

Description: This article is a summary of the Morris Review, a public inquiry, of the actuarial profession in the United Kingdom. The report was published in 2004.